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Alaska Arctic Bioclimate Subzone Map
Various authors, working with different geobotanical traditions, have divided the Arctic into bioclimatic regions using a variety of terminologies. The origins of these... -
Beechey Point Land Cover Classification: CRREL Report 87-5
This report presents a Landsat-derived land cover classification of the Beechey Point, Alaska, 1:250,000-scale quadrangle with descriptions of the major vegetation units. Eight... -
Circumpolar Arctic AVHRR NDVI Map
The normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) is a measure of greenness. NDVI was calculated as: NDVI = (NIR - R) / (NIR + R), where NIR is the spectral reflectance in the... -
Toolik Lake Area Vegetation
Map of the Toolik Lake research area . The attribute table contains data for vegetation. The Toolik Lake vegetation area is located near the western boundary of the Upper... -
Seward Peninsula Range Mapping (Swanson et al. 1985)
In 1976, the Northwest Alaska Native Association (NANA) and the Reindeer Herders Association (RHA) asked the Alaska Soil and Water Conservation District and the United States... -
AVA-CA: Canadian Western Arctic Vegetation Plots (Lambert 1968)
Arctic Vegetation Archive - Canada: Canadian Western Arctic Vegetation Plots. The vegetation and soils of the Low Arctic Subalpine Zone of the Richardson and British Mountains... -
AVA-AK: Happy Valley Vegetation Plots (Walker et al. 1997)
Arctic Vegetation Archive - Alaska: Happy Valley Vegetation Plots. The Happy Valley research site is located along the Sagavanirktok River in a glaciated valley of the northern... -
Circumpolar Arctic Coastline and Treeline Map
The map extent is the Arctic, defined as the Arctic Bioclimate Zone, the area of the Earth with tundra vegetation and an Arctic climate and Arctic flora. It excludes tundra... -
Circumpolar Arctic Floristic Provinces Map
Floristic sectors characterize the considerable east-west floristic variation within the subzones. The more northern Arctic bioclimate subzones have a relatively consistent core... -
Circumpolar Arctic AVHRR Summer Warmth Index 1982-2003 (Raynolds et al. 2008)
This data set was calculated from monthly AVHRR thermal infrared data (Comiso 2003). Summer Warmth Index (SWI) is the sum of monthly mean temperatures above 0 degrees Celsius.... -
AVA-AK: ATLAS-2 Vegetation Studies (Raynolds et al. 2002)
Arctic Vegetation Archive - Alaska: ATLAS-2 The ATLAS-2 dataset is part of larger NSF-funded Arctic Transition in Land-Atmosphere System (ATLAS) project. ATLAS-2 contains the... -
AVA-AK: Pingo Vegetation Plots (M. Walker 1990)
Arctic Vegetation Archive - Alaska: Pingo Vegetation Plots. The vegetation and floristics of pingos on the Central Arctic Coastal Plain of Alaska were described by M. D. Walker... -
AVA-AK: Tundra Fires (Breen 2015)
Arctic Vegetation Archive - Alaska: Tundra Fires. The vegetation associated with tundra fire scars on the Seward Peninsula and northern foothills of the Brooks Range in Arctic... -
Vegetation Mapping of the Arctic Refuge Coastal Plain (Jorgenson et al. 1996)
This landcover map of the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in northeastern Alaska was produced by the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, and published in... -
Toolik Lake Area Soil Carbon
Map of the Toolik Lake research area soil carbon. The map encloses a 20 km^2 area surrounding Toolik Lake that stretches from the Dalton Highway on the east to Jade Mountain on... -
Land cover map of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (Walker et al. 1982)
The Landsat-assisted environmental mapping of the northern coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Alaska was funded by the US Fish and Wildlife Service and the US... -
AVA-AK: Western Alaska Vegetation Plots (Hanson 1951)
Arctic Vegetation Archive - Alaska: Western Alaska Vegetation Plots. Sampling of grassland, marsh and other plant communities across Alaska was completed by Hanson (1951) to... -
NSSI Landcover GIS Data: Landcover Mapping for North Slope of Alaska (Ducks U...
Data is provided as raster GIS layer in .img format. The project final report is included in the full data download or can be downloaded separately. This map is the outcome of a... -
AVA-AK: Atqasuk Vegetation Plots (Komárková & Webber 1980; Villarreal 2013)
Arctic Vegetation Archive - Alaska: Atqasuk. The Atqasuk vegetation plots were originally described and mapped by Drs. Vera Komárková and Patrick J. Webber in 1975 as part of... -
Circumpolar Arctic Lake Cover Map
Lake cover strongly affects the reflectance of the land surface over large areas of the Arctic, and was useful for identifying extensive wetlands. Lake cover was based on the...